Monday 2 January 2012

Cookin' with gas...

It's a New Year, that began with a party and fireworks, and we have high hopes that 2012 will provide us with lots of change (in a good way, of course).

And here at Dolores Delargo Towers, we begin the year with our first Tacky Music Monday!

Yesterday would have been the 112th birthday of the magnificent Xavier Cugat, so what better way to start but as we mean to go on - with a triple bill of his wonderfully uplifting music?

Here he is featuring the effervescent Lina Ronay:


Here with our "patron saint" Carmen Miranda:


And to finish, here he provides the music for his wife #4, Miss Abbe Lane:


Fantabulosa!

Xavier Cugat biography on AllMusic

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